Question

student life in the time of preporation for
future life ( complex)​

Answer 1

Answer:

This is the story of an innovative collaboration that began in the fall of 2009 when I approached an independent secondary school with a program that seemed to align well with the school's unique mission and culture. In reality, our collaboration began several years earlier when I, as a parent, served on the board of trustees and as the parent faculty association liaison to the headmaster. Later, I served as liaison to the upper school head when my son was a senior. These experiences afforded me a unique opportunity to gain intimate knowledge of the school's mission, core values, and operational principles. When I learned that the school had recently completed a visioning exercise resulting in a desire "to transition from a comfortable, home-grown environment to a more professional entity that operates more like a business with world-class processes and out-of-the-box thinking," I believed that this would be a good time to introduce a vision-based life-planning process.

In particular, as a professional life coach, I was aware of the possible disconnect between the short-term action steps adults laid out for students (e.g., college selection) and the development of a long-term plan for the students' futures. These thoughts began to coalesce into preliminary questions. How are we preparing our students for the future? What is being done at the secondary school level to prepare students for work, citizenship, and the world — to prepare students to truly own their own future and the challenges they will face? Is there a way to improve these efforts?